Quality and Community Evangelist at Directi and Vice-Chairman of Agile Software Community of India
Bangalore Area, India
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- Quality and Community Evangelist at Directi
- Vice Chairman at Agile Software Community of India
- Past
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- Independant Consultant (Self-employed)
- Software Craftsman at ThoughtWorks
- Agile Coach and Consultant at Siemens Medical Solution
- Software Engineer at DSL
- Intern at Kshema Technologies
- Intern at Indian Space Research Organisation
- Trainning Faculty at Netlogic
- Education
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- B.M.S College of Engg
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Naresh Jain’s Summary
Naresh Jain is software craftsman working for Directi as Quality and Community Evangelist. He helps software organizations deliver quality software solutions using Agile and Lean thinking. He has worked on variety of software projects utilizing XP, Scrum and Crystal techniques since 2003.
Naresh is passionate about building a community of talented and capable software craftsman, the next generation software leaders in India. In recognition of his accomplishments, in 2007 the Agile Alliance awarded Naresh with the Gordon Pask Award for contributions to the Agile Community by establishing Agile User Groups in India and for creating the Simple Design and Testing conference.
Naresh Jain is the founder Vice-Chairman of the Agile Software Community of India (ASCI) and the organizer of the Simple Design And Testing Conference (SDTConf). Naresh has help start various Agile User Groups including the Agile Philly User Group and various groups in India. Naresh is an active Open Source committer and enjoys teaching software development courses in Universities. By being a part of the team, Naresh helps software companies embrace agile.
Naresh enjoys beer, music, adventure sports and hot food of any colour. To know more about Naresh visit ...http://agilefaqs.com/nareshjain.html
Naresh Jain’s Specialties:
Software Development
Adventure Sports
Naresh Jain’s Experience
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Quality and Community Evangelist
Directi
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (5 months)
Defining and Implementing organization wide processes and risk-reduction practices (borrowing upon Agile or any other philosophy as appropriate)
Building and growing a sizable QA team, whose task would be to percolate Agile practices and other Product Engineering philosophies across the myriad product engineering teams at Directi
Organize country-wide open camps, conferences, rallies, shows, contests etc for knowledge sharing and community building -
Vice Chairman
Agile Software Community of India
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2004 — Present (4 years 5 months)
Founder Vice Chairman
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Independant Consultant
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — January 2008 (3 months)
After returning from US, I took a break and did some independent Agile consulting in India. Now I have taken a full time job and will hopefully get back to independent consulting in future.
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Software Craftsman
ThoughtWorks
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — November 2007 (3 years 11 months)
Helping teams embrace Agile
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Agile Coach and Consultant
Siemens Medical Solution
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 11 months)
I was an Agile coach and technical lead on various teams.
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Software Engineer
DSL
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 5 months)
QA and Code Monkey
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Intern
Kshema Technologies
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Networking industry)
January 2002 — July 2002 (7 months)
Worked as an intern on a network packet sniffer project.
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Intern
Indian Space Research Organisation
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
August 2001 — June 2002 (11 months)
Was working as an intern on a research project for classifying remote satellite images using neural networks.
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Trainning Faculty
Netlogic
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
January 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 7 months)
Was teaching students C and C++ programming language
Naresh Jain’s Education
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B.M.S College of Engg
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Systems, June 1988 — July 2002
- Activities and Societies:
- Rotract, Mountaineering club, Founder president of BMS IT Club, Bangalore Linux Users Group, Secretary of Cultural & literary board and college fest
Additional Information
Naresh Jain’s Websites:
Naresh Jain’s Interests:
Adventure Sports, Traveling, Chaos Management, Shooting and Psychedelic music
Naresh Jain’s Groups:
Founder Vice Chairman, Agile Software Community of India [ASCI] http://agileIndia.org
Organizer, Agile Coach Camp http://agilecoachcamp.org
Organizer, Simple Design and Testing conference http://sdtconf.com
Facilitator, Agile Philly User Group http://wiki.agilephilly.com
Agile Alliance Member http://agilealliance.org
Banagalore Linux Users Group - http://linux-bangalore.org/
BMS Mountainering Club
http://fitnesse.org
http://fitdecorator.sourceforge.net
http://patang.sourceforge.net
http://lattu.sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protest
http://sourceforge.net/projects/profit
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbfit
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Forbes.com New York City Group member -
Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools Workshop Participants member -
Agile Software Community of India member -
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TWAlum member
Naresh Jain’s Honors:
2007 Gordon Pask Award by Agile Alliance - http://agilealliance.org/show/1958
